State of the art for solar thermal or PV cooling and refrigeration Daniel MUGNIER 15/10/2014 SHC 2014 Conference Beijing (China)
To Introduce the importance of 2 SOLAR COOLING for China one picture taken this morning in Datun Road close to CNCC
IEA Technology Roadmap SHC Share of solar cooling by 2050 3 Source: IEA Technology Roadmap Solar Heating and Cooling, 2012 Solar Cooling nearly 17% of total energy use for cooling!
IEA Technology Roadmap SHC Market potential by 2050 Big potential of growth especially in China 1.5 x 10 18 J/a = 416.7 TWh/a Solar Cooling by 2050 Source: IEA Technology Roadmap Solar Heating and Cooling, 2012 Systems could enter the market between 2015 and 2020
Solar thermal collector technologies versus Application for solar cooling Solar thermal collector Heat transfer medium Collector temperature Application for cooling Air collector Air 40-60ºC Air-conditioning 20ºC Flat plate collector Water, Water-Glycol 70-90ºC Air-conditioning, slab cooling 15ºC Evacuated tube collector Water, Water-Glycol 90-120ºC Air-conditioning, slab cooling 0ºC Parabolic trough / Fresnel collector Thermal oil, Water 120-250ºC Refrigeration, air-conditioning, slab cooling -20ºC
Small-scale capacity adsorption chillers SorTech ecoo10 Water / Silica gel InvenSor LTC10 & HTC18 Water / Zeolithe Soruce: SorTech Source: InvenSor Cooling capacity range: 10 kw to 18 kw Heating temperatures: 60 95 C Cold water temperatures: 15 C COP : 0.6 0.65 (0.7*) no claim on completeness * High Efficiency Modus
Small-scale capacity absorption chillers EAW SE15 Water / Lithium bromide Pink PC19 Ammonia / Water Source: EAW Source: Pink Cooling capacity range: 15 kw to 19 kw Heating temperatures: 65 95 C Cold water temperatures: 6 7 C (NH 3-5 C) COP : 0.65 0.75 (0.5)
Latest progresses : Integrated hydraulic unit for comfortable system integration Source: InvenSor Source: SorTech
High-temperature applications Example : Footbal Stadium in Dubai
Total amount of installed Total amount of installed Solar Cooling systems in Europe Solar Cooling systems in Europe and the World and the World SHC 2014 conference - Beijing (China), 15/10/2014 Market development of solar thermal cooling 1200 1200 Source: Solem Consulting / TECSOL 1000 1000 800 800 600 600 400 400 200 200 Small, but steadily growing market 0 0 2004 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2004 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Europe Europe World World About > 1,200 systems installed worldwide (2013)
Market share of solar driven sorption chillers (2009) Sources: EURAC, Tecsol
Technical status Mature components available (both solar and refrigeration, A/C) Main progress made in last decade Small scale heat driven chillers Increasing number of high efficient double and recently triple effect absorption chillers Development of systems using single-axis tracking solar collectors Main technical shortcomings are still on system level Energy efficient heat rejection system Energy management Bottleneck: good trained technical staff almost not available
Energy performance Many systems lead to measurable energy savings when compared to a best practice conventional reference solution Best values of overall electric COP range up to 6-8, which means that 6-8 kwh of useful cooling are produced with 1 kwh of invested electricity Target value for electric COP > 10 However: also many systems do not achieve these values in practice due to Non-optimal design Non-optimal operation (e.g. control, part load)
Campus area: 76,000m²/ 820,000ft² Students: approx. 2700 Solar Panels: 3900 m²/2.73 MW therm Source : SOLID Chiller size: 1500kW/420 tons Storage: For Cooling 60 m³ For Hot Water 7 m³ Electrical efficiency of 6,3 in 2013
SERM Montpellier SAC/DHW system Montpellier Heating and System net utilities => System owner TECSOL : engineering company AXIMA GDF SUEZ : Company in charge of the works Building A view Picture of the collector field 240 m² DG FP collectors + 35 kw absorption chiller solar circuit in drainback mode
Full year balance (march 2013/ mars 2014) Global Electrical efficiency of nearly 21 in average for a full year & a solar yield of 674 kwh/m².y
Monitoring results for Summer 2014 Average electrical efficiency again of 12
specific costs of solar cooling kits [EUR/kW cold] SHC 2014 conference - Beijing (China), 15/10/2014 Cost development of solar cooling Kits (2007-2012) 9000 Source: Solem Consulting / Green Chiller 8000 7000-50% 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 year small capacity up to 10 kw medium capacity up to 50 kw large capacity above 50 kw Cost reduction of 45-55% within last 5 years!
Economic viability First cost 2-5 times higher than for conventional technology Total first cost found in realized installations: 2000 5000 per kw of cold production (for entire system including solar collector field) Payback time depends strongly on boundary conditions Annual numbers of use (cooling, heating, hot water, ) Conventional energy cost Climatic conditions Best conditions: payback < 10 years very difficult to reach
Conclusion for solar thermal cooling Source: SolarNext About 1,200 solar cooling systems installed worldwide (2013) Several new small and medium-scale Absorption and Adsorption chillers were developed worldwide in the last few years, especially in Europe Standardized Solar Cooling Kits available to bring down the costs Solar heat is particularly of interest if a solar thermal system is used for other heat needs, too (e.g. heating, DHW)
Need of a new Generation solar cooling systems Solar thermal «traditionnal» cooling has difficulty to emerge as a economically competitive solution Main reasons : - Technical : Limit on adaptability due to hydraulics, complexity - Economical : Investment cost, especially for small systems Still need intensive R&D for quality improvment and best solution selection (ongoing IEA SHC Task 48) Very innovative concepts such Source : Climatewell
How to find a solution for small/medium size? * A very important priority : solar for cooling, especially for small to medium size Example : 10% of the entire Saudi Arabia oil production for national cooling * New context on economics for PV and trend towards selfconsumption * A real growing market IEA SHC Task 53 but strong need of: * standards * thermal management optimum * monitoring & best practice
Example of Basic concept for the PV approach PV Controller / Inverter Master Slave Air conditioner / Heat Pump / Food conservation LOAD OPTIONAL GRID Water storage (chilled water / hot water / DHW)
IEA SHC Task 53 Website SHC 2014 conference - Beijing (China), 15/10/2014
IEA SHC Task 53 Subtask A Which systems do we have? NG systems close to market R&D Systems close to Market PV CH (Cooling/ Heating) on the Market STDCH SolabCOOL (NL) PV CH (Cooling/ Heating) BIG HEATING company (GER) Helioherm SUNCOOL/Climatewell (SE) STDCH FREESCOO (IT) Climatewell (SE)
State of the art of this new Market (no claim for completeness)
Main categories Solar air conditioners : Splits PV+ HP coupling for Office/Commercial
ACDC12-Hybrid Retail/List-$1695ea FOB Factory Dealer Price: 4-49 units $1290ea FOB Factory Distributor Price: 50+ units $891ea FOB China **Unit includes 3m lineset SHC 2014 conference - Beijing (China), 15/10/2014
Typical ALREADY EU market available solution Efficient Geothermal Heat Pump : COP of 5,3 Field test since 2011 in Switzerland PV booster => overall yearly COP of 6,9
State of the art of the future new Market Active R&D participants in Task 53 Testing principle for a Chinese PV split unit (Source: Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche)
Source : Cosseco Source : Climatewell Thanks for your attention! Contact : Daniel Mugnier, TECSOL daniel.mugnier@tecsol.fr